Barbed fence-wire



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J. W. NADELHOFFER.

BARBED FENCE WIRE. No. 302,422.

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Patented July 22, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. NADELHOFFER, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

BARBED FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,422, dated July 22,1884.

Application filed December 15, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it kn own that I, J OI-IN W. NADELHOFFER, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Joliet, in the county of N111 and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BarbedFence-Tires, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a plan view on the top; Fig. 3,a perspective view of a barb detached from the strand-wires; and Fig.4,apla-n view of the strand-wires, showing their cross.

This invention relates to certain improvements in barbed wire forfences; and it consists in the particular manner in which the barbs areattached to the strand-wires, to prevent the barbs from rotating in anydirection or from sliding along on the strand-wires by the peculiar formof the barb itself.

Referring to the drawings, W W are a pair of strand-wires,which cross atintervals at the places where it is desired to attach the barbs,

' and the strand-wires are not twisted. The cross of the twostrand-wires forms an axis, upon which the bodyC of the barb is coiledby passing each prod a a through between the strandwires, so that oneprod will lie in each crotch formed by the cross of the strand-wires.The two prods a a are then interlocked with each other, as shown at D,Figs. 1 and 2,and the prods are then bent to point in oppositedirections (No model.)

from each other and at right angles with the strand-wires. By this modeof attachment the barbs cannot rotate on thecross of the strandwires astheir axis, and are firmly held on by the interlocking of the prods, andnot by coiling them in any manner back on the strand-wires. It will beobserved that by this means of at.- tachment and by this form of thebarb it cannot rotate around the strand-wires or rotate on the axisformed by their cross, because of the two projecting prods, neither canit slide along on the strand-wires, because of its attachment to thestrandwvires about the cross; and among the novel features is that itrequires no portion of the prods to be coiled on the strands, nor doesit require the strands to be twisted to support the barb.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

The combination, with the two strandwires W W, crossed at intervalswhere a barb is to be applied, of the wire barb O, coiled around theaxis formed by the crossed portions of said strand-wires, the two prodsa a of the barb being interlocked at D, and respectively projecting inopposite directions to the stramtwires, substantially as described.

JOHN \V. 'NADELHOFFER.

